Word: marshalling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Samuel Huntington Wolcott '03, of Boston and Readville, was appointed Commencement Day marshal for 1928 at a recent meeting of the Directors of the Harvard Alumni Association. The selection was in accord with the tradition that the marshal shall be a member of the class, which celebrates on Commencement Day the twenty-fifth anniversary of its graduation from college...
...Wolcott is a son of the late Roger Wolcott '70, who, in 1895, while he was Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts, was Commencement marshal. Roger Wolcott was subsequently Governor of Massachusetts for three years, in addition to ten months of service as Acting Governor after the decease of Frederic T. Greenhalge, '63, who died in office, March 5, 1896, while Governor of the Commonwealth...
...great Marshal Chiang Kai-shek journeyed from Shanghai to Nanking, last week, and there fulfilled his announced intention of assuming supreme civil and military command of the "Nationalist Government" (TIME, Jan. 2). Soon he reorganized the Cabinet, appointing as Minister of Finance his wife's brother, T. V. Soong, and as Minister of Reconstruction his step-nephew by marriage, Sun Fo (son of the late, "sainted" Dr. Sun Yat-sen). Excitement brewed and seethed as Marshal Chiang ordered into immediate session some scores of delegates who have remained impatiently assembled in Nanking eager to become the Nationalist Party Congress...
...retrenchment; 2) Money has grown sufficiently plentiful in Tokyo so that large issues of securities are again being placed there, notably the recent Osaka Municipal Loan; 3) Tourist spending in Japan is on the boom; 4) Japanese interests in Manchuria are prospering under the firm if iniquitous rule of Marshal Chang...
Chiang Looms. Marshal Chiang Kaishek, a bantam weight, trim-figured "Nationalist," who disdains pomp and affects a simple khaki uniform, loomed, last week, as likely to be first in the field of springtime civil war. His personal headquarters are at the great seaport Shanghai; but he has recently been chosen the civil and military head of the "Nationalist Government of China," a group of politicians and generals with headquarters at Nanking, nearby. Last week this group were preparing to hold, early in January, a plenary session of the Nationalist party congress?to concoct war plans. Since there was danger, however...